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    A Christmas Carol is a beautifully crafted novel which symbolizes life in the Victorian Era where class discrimination was a common practice and nearly no one would speak up against it - except Charles Dickens. Social commentary is a skill used by artist of every deviation to making remarks on sundry issues society faces and in Dickens case, he uses his words to lessen the social gap between the poor and rich. Dickens leads the reader into his novel immediately by explaining that Ebenezer Scrooge

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    You can tell that Scrooge is the main character in the story “A Christmas Carol”. Scrooge may as well be known as an astringent aged man that is unfair, plaintive unlikable, unsavory, nihilist well as very rude. Moreover, Scrooge gainsaid anything that deals with happiness, generosity, up most of all, Christmas. Everyone in the story seemed to be apprehensive of Scrooge. Consequently, his dead business partner’s ghost comes and warns him that three different ghosts will try to help him recover

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    a Christmas Carol all of the secondary characters and the minor characters had a predetermined idea of who Ebenezer Scrooge was. This is because he wasn’t huge on the Christmas season like the other people in the book were, however, as the book progresses the reader learns more about Scrooge's experiences around Christmas that made him feel the way he did about Christmas and why he saw it as a holiday for spending money and trying to pay bills with no money. In A Christmas Carol Scrooge appears

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    The Christmas Carol ties sorrow and tense all together very nicely. Charles Dickens, the author of this story, creates unusual themes and characters throughout the book. Dickens was most commonly known for the number of books he wrote, including the Christmas Carol. The 1984 version of the movie changes and improves some important scenes and themes. The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is similar in a few different ways to the spirit described in the book. This particular ghost was completely unpredictable

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    Bret Wilson C100 - Performance Assessment Task 1 10/X/2017 A Christmas Carol After reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens I would not help but associate this story with how I envision the Realism period. I have learned, through my research, that authors during the Realism period often wrote about struggles that resulted directly revolutions of the period. My initial thoughts on this story were that the author wanted to use Scrooge to symbolize greediness of people during the Christmas

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    This is how Ebenezer Scrooge changed throughout the story of a Christmas Carol. The christmas carol was written by Charles Dickens in December of 1843. Mr. Scrooge starts off in the play as an angry, unkind, and ungrateful person. As the story goes on he starts to become more understanding, he was sorry for his actions, and he was regretting things from his past. Finally in the end of the he apologized to everyone that he hurt and affected, he started to give money to charities and people in need

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    compares and analyzes the data. Low income, african-american and hispanic students are meant to read this text. Malcolm Gladwell talks about spending longer hours in school and working more hours on homework is the key to making students successful while Carol Dweck believes students can become more successful with a “growth” mindset that consists of hard work, motivation and effort . The text

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    Love is an intense feeling of deep affection and when you love someone you would do anything for them. The novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a Christmas classic about a grumpy man named Scrooge, who is visited by spirits and then end ups changing for the better. In the novel Scrooge uses love to change, with the power of love Scrooge opens up more, but it’s not just Scrooge who uses love to change. Dickens is trying to teach his audience that loving someone can change who you are because

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    The other day my mom came home from the store with the usual armful of cardboard bags. However, there was something very different about one bag that separated it from all of the others. My mom asked me to unload the items and organize them into their awaiting shelves. Their contents contained typical groceries such as cereal, some new herbal teas, and a fresh bottle of dish detergent. But, this special bag carried a large Yankee candle encased in glass and embellished with a large sticker reading

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    Frank Sinatra Success

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    No one will argue against Frank Sinatra's success in the music industry. An Academy Award winner, 11-time Grammy winner, and a Peabody recipient, Frank Sinatra led what many consider a successful life. Although he died wealthy, married, and famous, one must wonder if Frank Sinatra was truly happy? Sinatra was known for mood swings which often resulted in fights, and had attempted suicide multiple times (“8 Things you didn’t Know about Frank Sinatra”). Just because Frank Sinatra was outwardly successful

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